I find no listing in my sources for this artist. What is offered here however, is very unusual piece of early American Art. The painting, 21 inches by 17 inches, 31 1/2 inches by 27 1/2 inches framed, is done on an advertising board dated 1871, and by every indication of age is from that era. It was signed "H. L. Snydam", bottom right. It is surely almost unique in that I would summize each of these figures is actually a miniature portrait of the five men seen. They were probably all hunting friends of the gentleman in the center. I would speculate his wife recently had her portrait made, as was fashion and those times by a portraitist who did those small paintings often referred to as "on ivory", which were usually on celluloid, that were worn as cameos. This painting was likely commissioned as something rare for that portrait painter and rare in the Art world, a group portrait of five mid-19th-century American sportsmen after the hunt. The artist, more familiar with small faces than hunting attire or even full figures, rendered the faces in the style of individual cameos, soft, almost photographic in nature. The clothing animals and landscape was done in a more awkward but wonderful naive style. The authenticity of the dress and hunting gear, including the Civil War era military uniform of the figure kneeling to the viewer's right is remarkable.